KarmicDisaster:meyerkev: wildcardjack: This is only relevant to server / desktop interests. Our mobile and semi-mobile devices are going more and more to solid state storage. Spinning a disk eats up battery life.

It's actually sorta a tie. you can spend lots of power some of the time whenever you need the disk, or you can spend some power all the time if you have an SSD.

/SSD's are just WAY faster.

SSDs are flash RAM, so I don't think that they use much power except when you are writing to them, just enough to keep the controller board alive.

Rams are WAY larger than bacteria though. Don't they use a lot of energy? Especially with all that headbutting they do. And they poop too. Bacteria poop, but its not like you gotta put diapers on them when you take them down to the coffeehouse to work on your latest future novel.